Margot Wilson
Welcome The following pages highlight projects from my practice that draw together a lifetime of experience and research, approaching art as philosophy. Spanning six decades, three urgent threads: cosmological mysticism, post-self philosophy, and aliveness in art unfold, emerge, and pulse. Since embarking on formal art studies, I have begun to articulate this sense of aliveness as a search for a new canon of art, where breath, resonance, and matter converge into a living harmonic field. My practice is a search for collective resonance: a shared harmonic expressed through sculptural breath and acoustic portals that invite many voices to sound together. |
With careers spanning frontier media and banking technologies, alongside degrees in Philosophy, Writing, and Art from Birkbeck, the University of Glasgow, and the Royal College of Art, my practice emerges from an unusual confluence of disciplines. My work has been shown in group exhibitions at Tate Modern (Tate Lates), the Royal Scottish Academy, and the Czech Centre, London. My research has been presented at the Royal College of Psychiatry Congress and the Science of Consciousness Conferences, with essays published on Academia.edu and ResearchGate. I now bring this interdisciplinary, research-led practice to the Slade School of Fine Art – MFA Sculpture (2025–27), where I will explore sculpture as the possibility of collective resonance: a shared harmonic shaped through acoustic form, ancient technologies, and luminous materials.
Philosophically, my work is grounded both in early Buddhist teachings on ignorance and freedom, and in resonant theories from Hermann von Helmholtz’s acoustics to contemporary explorations of harmonics and vibrational aesthetics. Overall, my practice investigates vibrational aesthetics through a post-self lens, unfolding from the standpoint of embodied ritual, radical materiality, and philosophical unknowing. |
Post-Self Performance
Kinetic Entropy (2024-25), Installation, Performance, Video (Women Cinemaker Award), M25/Basingstoke Canal interchange - performance still
DONNA KIM, movement artist, responding to VENUS RESURRECTION by Margot Wilson (ONE EXTENDED MEDITATION, Furies Collective, Copeland Gallery)
Margot Wilson, INCANTATION Performance, Trancing the Third Millennium (ONE EXTENDED MEDITATION, Furies Collective, Copeland Gallery)
Trance Typing: Tapping into the Third Millennium
Predictive Text: Trancing the Third Millennium, International Body of Art Exhibition, Peckham Car Park, London (2024)